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Abdul the Damned (also known as Abdul Hamid) is a 1935 British drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther and John Stuart. It was made at the British International Pictures studios by Alliance-Capitol Productions. It is set in the Ottoman Empire in the years before the First World War, during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the constitutionalist Young Turks who dethroned him.
Plot
Cast
Fritz Kortner as Sultan Abdul Hamid II / Kelar
Nils Asther as Chief of Police Kadar-Pasha
John Stuart as Captain Talak-Bey
Adrienne Ames as Therese Alder
Esme Percy as Ali - Chief Eunuch
Walter Rilla as Hassan-Bey
Charles Carson as General Hilmi-Pasha
Patric Knowles as Omar - Hilmi's Attache
Eric Portman as Conspirator
Clifford Heatherley as Court Doctor
Henry B. Longhurst as General of the Bodyguards
Annie Esmond as Therese's Train Companion
Harold Saxon-Snell as Chief Interrogator
George Zucco as Officer of the Firing Squad
Robert Naylor as Opera Singer
Warren Jenkins as Young Turk Singer
Henry Peterson as Spy
Arthur Hardy as Ambassador
Critical reception
The New York Times wrote, "Although the film achieves a few moments of dramatic interest—chiefly through the performance of the Continental Fritz Kortner—it is in the main a tedious and uninspired biography, scarred by hypodermic injections of stale melodrama"; whereas Film Weekly found it "magnificently acted by Fritz Kortner. Interesting, impressive and, for the most part, gripping entertainment."
References
Bibliography
Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
External links
Abdul the Damned at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Esme Percy
- Fritz Kortner
- Hamzah Haz
- Dee Bradley Baker
- Daftar penerima Nobel Muslim
- Keterlibatan Amerika Serikat dalam pergantian rezim
- Daftar film laga tahun 2000-an
- Abdul the Damned
- Damned
- Abdul Hamid
- Arthur Hardy (actor)
- Abdul Hamid II
- Eric Portman
- Patric Knowles
- Emeric Pressburger
- Adrienne Ames
- Curt Siodmak
